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From: jkim@uhccux.UUCP (Jay Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Chart parsers and PROLOG
Message-ID: <513@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 22:37:06 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 24 22:37:06 1987
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Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Keywords: chart parsers, PROLOG, natural language processing
Summary: want to have the description of chart formalism with relation to a parser
Xref: mnetor comp.ai:446 comp.lang.prolog:244

In article <548@uvm-gen.UUCP>, emerson@uvm-gen.UUCP (Tom Emerson) writes:
> I would like to hear from others who have been working in PROLOG for natural language processing.  I am currently working on implementing an effecient parser
> in PROLOG, and have found the active chart formalism to be the most effective for efficient parsing.  Has anyone else done work such as this?  I know that Hideki Hirakawa of ICOT has implemented a chart parser in concurrent PROLOG (see ICOT TR-008).
> 
> For those who would like a description of the chart formalism, I would be glad to put a short description on the net.
> 
> Does any one know of a more effecient formalism than the active chart?  All and any information would be appreciated.
>  
> Tom Emerson
> University of Vermont

i am working on a parser in spitbol and another in LISP.  i want to know what you mean by the acitve chart.  it mgiht help to see if the one i am working on is more effecient than that.